Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of “grow or die,” is a thoroughly impersonal,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“The indignation school of writers never tires of pointing out the millions that are stolen in the Street. But while the millions… — Fred Schwed Jr Copy Share Image
“If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all principal… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The question has to be asked: Why do we exist? Each firm has to answer that question in a way that is… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
“There’s barely a product or service on the market today that customers can’t buy from someone else for about the same price,… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“What Greenspan was saying, in other words, was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with bidding up to $100 million in share… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We sold sugar with the specific conditions established by American buyers, which in turn dominated the internal market and production in Cuba.… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Without getting into brothels, there are ethical capitalists the problem is that there aren't enough of them. It is not "just a… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Like everywhere else in the world, the book stores of Britain are struggling with being pushed out of the market by online… — Alana Muir Copy Share Image
But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
'Daydream' brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; 'Daydream' kind… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Chambers et al. conclude that Keynes had no skill as a market timer. By then, however, the man who had started out… — Allen C. Benello Copy Share Image
Value investing strategies have worked for years and everyone's known about them. They continue to work because it's hard for people to… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Questions on the following topics can help you identify helpful information about the company that you can then use to refine your… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
“There are three essential approaches for analytic marketing: (1) propensity models predict likelihood to purchase, (2) market basket analysis provides actionable association… — Mark Jeffery Copy Share Image
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